I’m already on the record to say that I think parenting is broken and the problems are not superficial.

This is a broad topic and we have 10 years to talk about as we see the horror unfold which it will.  The last thing I want to do is bite off more than I can chew right now but I do want to broach this and at least start talking about it.

Continue reading Pluto In Capricorn: Cracks In The Foundation – Parenting

I have an interest in some aspects of social psychology and have noticed to two themes emerge in the field that smack of Pluto’s transit through Capricorn. One is the current interest is the study of who achieves.
Continue reading Pluto In Capricorn: Parenting And A Legacy Of Success

I just wrote to a gal on an email consultation, her need for independence (Moon in Aries) was as valid as another person’s need to partner. This is somewhat tricky because she is a mother.

Aries is self-centered which does not describe the quintessential Mom, however Aries Moon have much to offer their children.
Continue reading The Aries Moon Mother

I’ve stated my position on parenting a few times, I think it’s broken. Most kids grow up in single parent homes and even if both parents are involved there are some nasty dynamics that set up.

Both parents tend to try make the other parent the bad guy in one form or the other and even in it’s mildest form this is incredibly destructive.

Continue reading Pluto In Capricorn: The Shadow Side / Psychology Of Parenting

Speaking of coming home in the evening and having something to say, last night the soldier and Vid and I sat down to dinner. It wasn’t actually dinner because the soldier went to the gym after work so got home late. But I feed him when he gets home and usually eat with him unless I get myself starving earlier.

I also feed Vidroid earlier, a normal dinner tome but with his Sun, Moon and rising in Venus signs, Vid loves love and he loves the soldier. He wants to be the soldier in at least this capacity: He wants to be able to get a woman to love him.

Knowing his mother loves the soldier (and probably feeling at this age that she is the ultimate woman) he is keen to learn the soldier’s love tricks and he studies him closely.
Continue reading Stellium In Libra… Teaching Boys About Love

I have a friend who is involved or rather she is associated with a man who finds women everywhere he goes. He finds mother substitutes, specifically and it’s just uncanny. He finds these women (or they find him) and they pretty much form a line waiting to meet this man’s needs.

There is nothing you can do about something like this outside of observe it and people do. The women don’t compete. Instead they remark to each other… “Look at how many mothers he has…” This man is in his 40′s and in whatever case I told her this story… Continue reading Astrology And Deprivation – It Has It’s Upside: Making a Case For Saturn / Capricorn

Last night, Vid, the soldier and I were messing around. I took a stand against the soldier and Vid took his side. I looked at him mockingly. “Siding against your old mom now, are you? You’re on his side?”

“Yeah I’m with him,” he said.

“Great! My own son sides against me…”

He stared and held firm.

“Nah… it’s okay, Vid. I am glad you are on his side.”

“Well, Mom, we’re boys. We are both boys so I am on his side. I was the only boy around here for a long time but now it’s your turn to be the only girl. Your turn to suffer and feel the pain.”

I stared at him completely flabbergasted. “Suffer and feel the pain? Suffer? Did you say, suffer and feel pain?”

“Yep. Yep, that’s right.”

I walked off muttering and shaking my head. There has apparently been a revolution and P is just finding out about it. Boys rule, did ya hear?

But the main thing I am getting loud and clear is there are things boys want and needs the moms just can’t deliver and I am pretty sure Pluto’s transit through Capricorn is going to make this painfully apparent.

I have strong feelings about single parenthood and they are getting stronger every day.  There has been an enormous influx of male energy since the soldier arrived and the arrived full time and the benefits to my son are absolutely stunning.

As a woman, I have little knowledge of the secret lives of boys. I am finding out that it does not matter how sophisticated I may (or may not) be… I am not a man means I am not a man means I am not a man.

So now when the soldier shuttles my son and his friend between the houses he is privy to the fact their art teacher has a tattoo on her chest and the boys wonder if it goes all the way to her “thingies”. Think my son would ever mention such a thing to me?  ::smiles::

Continue reading Astrology And Parenting: Pluto In Capricorn Has Me Both Humbled And Empowered

Like my son, some of my friends, my clients and the people who write me for advice are benefiting from my association with the soldier. I have taken to straight out asking for his opinion in certain circumstances.

I specifically consult with him when a man’s behavior is involved and the situation is not clear to me because invariably he can tell me what the man is up to in about 4 seconds and this is enormously helpful and valuable.

Continue reading Astrology And Parenting: Pluto In Capricorn Breaking Down The Barrier Between Men And Women

This is for Mercury in Scorpio and today’s Moon in Capricorn. Regarding the young man from the soldier’s church who committed suicide last week.

“I went in there and his mother is devastated. His girlfriend… they were going to get married and she is devastated. I mean, devastated. Why does someone do that, P? What is so bad you have to go and kill yourself?”

I didn’t answer. Continue reading Homosexuality and Suicide: A Cautionary Tale